Could shows like Arthur breed the next furry generation?

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I just wonder cause most of us remember something like looney toons or something that gave us our start I just wonder about Arthur cause the characters are already so anthro.
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I... doubt that TV shows influence people in being furries. At least not in totality. Besides, children spend less and less time on TV and more on computers.
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Well, I'm not sure...besides, Arthur is is already very old. It was new when I was like 4, and that was in 1993. Its still on I think...on PBS right? Despite that, tons of cartoons, in fact most, use furries anyways, to at least some degree. However, Arthur is what the young audience would watch, adn that is a crutial development time. BUt...the reason they made it anthro to start with was cause obviously most kids adore animals. My little cousin 10 year old is obsessed with animals, yet she aint a furry.
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Hmm... Possibly. I've been obsessed with animals since I was very young, but I know for sure that movies and books with animal characters have always had an effect on me.

I guess it's a chicken or egg thing. Do people like furry because of these characters, or do people like these characters because they're furry?
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I deffinatlly think alot of being furry is already in a person by the time they encounter something that has animal and human traits but the shows and stuff act as the final trigger.

Its like when you have a word stuck right at the tip of your toughn but you just can't quite remember it then something goes off in your head and all of a sudden it all comes together.

I just wonder what shows are most likely to trigger the final reaction.

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Poco is right, I don't mean that just because you like cartoons you are destiened to be furry. Many people have the basics in them and when they see something "furry" it puts the last pieces into place.

Like fliping a light switch on. You need to have a swith, wires, light bulb, and electricity so the furry/light potential is already there, but somewhere along the way the switch needs to also be flipped to the on position by something. I wonder if arthur and the like will work as the switch and final piece for those that already have the potential.

Get it now?
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I can't get something I haven't experienced. I hate cartoons and they definitely didn't influence me. I doubt that many people would suddenly say "hey, I'm a furry!" because they're "destined" to be, and because they just watched a cartoon. There MIGHT be SOME people who became/will become attracted to anthropomorphic animals thanks to cartoons, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of other reasons to that, and I doubt that cartoons only will "breed the next furry generation".

It's been said thousand times that there's no definite rule to being a furry, and I sure hope liking cartoons isn't a requirement. People may be furries, and still don't like Disney movies. I know I don't.

I don't like the term 'generation'. Everyone is born at a different time, and everyone finds out what a furry is at a different time, so it's not very accurate.
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Perhaps destined wasn't the right term to use. I just mean that at one point or another those who are furry whoever they might be and for whatever reason there is a point at which an assosiation is made.

If you like salty foods and you like corn and things that are crunchy when is the first time you encounter "corn chips". Also as there are diffrent varieties in the furry community there are diffrent flavors and presantaitons. For the chips analigy you have dorietoes, regular, freatoes and other variations of the same basics.

If a person assosiats themselves more with animals than humans and are humans (obviously). What or where will they encounter a human/animal character that unleashes the full "eurika" moment, even if not concious but just a sub-cncious assosiation.
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In response to your last comment well some people might. I mean there's a they wouldn't call it furry but they might occasionally imagine themselves as something like that. I don't think there's any person that hasn't wondered what it would be like to have at least some animal traits.
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